The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-21


changes, to this imperious insistence or alb
solute humiliation? Gladstone will find that
on the Liberal side of the House the spirit
OF EngliShmen has not quite disappeared,
and that leader to be followed must be a
leader who can be trusted to stand by his
opinions
PARNELL's POSITION.
''Mr. Gladstone thinks that Mr. Palnell's
position is perfectly reasonable and honor
able and that nobody ought to ask him to
clear himself. If Mr.. Parnell and his aSso-
clates were men absolutely free from slls-
picion in this matter l would understand
that reasoning But they belong to a party
of which large wing has worked by mur-
der and has been largely supported by the
contributions of others who openly advocate
political assassination.
PARNELL's FRIENDS.
Mr. ParnellS trusted friends have mixed
on terms of intimacy with those whose adVO-
cacy of assassination is we'll known. and the
language of Mr.. Parnell and his friends in
speaking of the fearful crimes that have
been committed is not above reproach, being
marked by indifference to, and even by toll
Grafton of murder. When such a grave case
of presumption exists it is not open for him
to take refuge III mere denial, or to think
that he can dispose of the accusations by
liberal Use of the wide and energetic vocab
ulary which his followers have used in the
House of Commons"
AMERICAN SYMPATHY.
Mr., Gladstone writes: 81 attach very
high value and Importance to the manifesto
tions, now incessant, of American as well
as colonial sympathy with the Irish people
in the crisis created by the causeless, insult
ing and insidious bill at present before Par
Lament, apart form particular and more or
less formal acknowledgements. | am not of
the opinion that it would be proper or expe-
dent for me to take it upon myself to ad-
dress any general communication to Ameri-
cans on this subject, which, however,
/ have noticed and may again
notice in Parliament Still, | am
very anxious that the people of this coun
try should have the means of understand
ing how much beyond the range of any sec
tional impulses and how truly national the
movement in the United States has become,
and in this view | would recommend that
an endeavor should be made to present
some estimate of the aggregate numbers of
persons by which the recent meetings in
America have been attended, and likewise
and especially an estimate of the number of
Governors, Mayors, Senators, Representa-
tives, clergymen, and other official or
highly responsible persons by whom such
meetings have been countenanced, or sup
ported"
THE TINES SHOULD PROVE IT.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, in speech
at East London tonight, Endorsed Earl Spen
GERS recent assertion that there was no evil
dence which showed that the Parnellites had
ever associated with criminals. He further.
said that in view of Mr.. Parnell's denial of
the accusations made against him it re-
manned for his accusers to substantiate
their charges. The Parnellites are
indignant at Lord Salisburys
speech at Albert Palace and there is some
talk of bringing his remarks under notice of
the House of Commons.
It is reported that as result of the re-
iteration of its charges by the Times an eff
fort will be made to bring the editor and
publisher of that paper before the House of
Commons and make them prove, if they
can, the truth of the allegations made by
them.
The charges against the Parnellites were
brought to divert attention from the real
question Mr.. Chamberlain's statement
that Mr Gladstone refused to modify his
bill was unfounded. The failure of the
round table conference was the personal
doing of Mr.. Chamberlain and nobody else.
GLADSTONE A TRUE STATESMAN.
John Morley addressed an audience of
1000 persons at Wolverhampton this even
ing. Referring to Mr. Gladstone, he said
that no other great leader had ever launched
a great issue or fought for great cause
with a spirit so entirely forgetful of his own
personality and so entirely shutting out the
mean and ignoble considerations which
seemed to affect ignoble minds. The crimes
bill, continued the speaker, awakened tens
of thousands of Liberals to what they did
when they reflected Mr.. Gladstone's policy.
He repudiated the accusation that the
Liberals countenanced violence and Obstruc-
tion in Parliament, and that they allied
themselves with men whose hands
were stained with outrage. He reminded
Mr.. Chamberlain that he in the FOrtnightLy
RerieU for February, 1885, advised that the
Parnellite leaders be taken into the councils
of the Queen The round table conference
had been suspended because Mr.. Chamber
lain, though conciliatory in conclave, con-
tinued in speech and letter publicly to re-
vive old bitterness.
UNIONIST BLINDNESS. \
The Unionsts proposed to settle the ques-
ton by ignoring five-sixths of the Irish peo-
pie and clubbing their trusted representatives
ruffians. On the general charge of com
plicity in crime brought against the Par
nellites, he had to say that the charge was
fully stated before Parliament in 1888, when
the Irish government, after the fullest in
uuiries, found that the accusation could not
be sllbstantiated With regard to the latest
that paper explained how it obtained the
letter and the grounds for believing it to be
authentic he should content himself with
Mr.. Parnells denial. On the fringe of
every popular movement were some bad
men, but il was a mistake to call the Irish
American home rulers the scum of the
earth. The Chicago convention had re
suited in the defeat of the party of
violence. The testimony even of prejudiced
witnesses was that they had to deal not
with rufiians, but with all that was best and
most honorable and most country-loving
among the masses of the respectable men i'll
America. [Cheersl
In criticising the governments proposals
Mr. Morley raised q laugh by saying that
bankruptcy had become what gardeners
call hardy annual
CHAMBERLAIN's ANSWER TO GLADSTONE.
With reference 70 MIR. Gladstone's speech
at the dinner of the Eighty Club last night
Mr.. Chamberlain says that Mr.. Gladstone
has been inaccurately informed. He says
he was unable to obtain from Mr.. Gladstone
a promise that he would make any inpor-
tant modification in his Irish bill, but he
never advanced that as the
reason of the failure of the round table
conference He H. not aware that any
attempt was made by Mr.. Gladstone 10
secure the cooperation of the Liberal
Unionists on any Liberal question outside of
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